skaffold VS devspace

A nice middle ground is using a tool like Google's Skaffold, which provides "Bazel-like" capabilities for composing Docker images and tagging them based on a number of strategies, including file manifests. In my case, I also use build args to explicitly set versions of external dependencies.

While I am in a Typescript environment with this setup at the moment, my personal experience that Skaffold with Docker has a lighter implementation and maintenance overhead than Bazel. (You also get the added benefit of easy deployment and automatic rebuilds.)

I quite liked using Bazel in a small Golang monorepo, but I ran into pain when trying to do things like include third-party pre-compiled binaries in the Docker builds, because of the unusual build rules convention. The advantage of Skaffold is it provides a thin build/tag/deploy/verify layer over Docker and other container types. Might be worth a look!

Kudos to the Google team building it! https://skaffold.dev

To get a similar experience of preevy up, first we’ll need to split the build and deploy using process or alternatively employ tools that orchestrate build-tag-push-update-sync flow like Skaffold/Tilt.

We will be using docker and microk8s from Canonical. For running our software during development, we will be using skaffold which is a great tool developed by Google.

To add more context, if you are developing containers in a local dev environment, the minimum you should have is the Google Cloud SDK and Skaffold. The SDK will allow you to programmatically interact with Googleapis e.g. auth, services, resources. Skaffold will allow you to build and deploy to the cloud similar to working with a local dev environment.

I have used both Skaffold and Devspace. I prefer the latter.

I wonder if it has some overlap with https://skaffold.dev/.

K3d and Skaffold for local development

skaffold.dev - build in k8s - no more asking for the database password. All the plumbing to the backend is just done so it's easier for them to test and demo any branch

Check also devspace.sh and okteto.com

There is actually a built-in converter from docker-compose.yaml to devspace.yaml, it is part of the "devspace init" command. There are a few known issues related to it, in case you would like to contribute :)

Wrapping https://devspace.sh in my company's internal CLI to improve development experience

For Kubernetes clusters, https://devspace.sh/ allows you to iterate on your app in a running pod from your IDE. No ci/cd pipeline, no re-applying manifests; it just uploads source code from your local machine and restarts your app for you in an existing pod. Pretty slick!!! But it requires K8s, so some devs may balk at it. (Tilt and Skaffold do the same thing)

We’re excited to announce that DevSpace version 6 has been released. Thanks to everyone who used the alpha and beta versions and gave us feedback.

DevSpace is free, lets you develop natively in the cloud on any K8s cluster. Compatible with any multitenancy solution, policy governance, etc. Works with your IDE of choice. Declarative configuration. Supports custom pipelines and deploy logic. Can link multiple environments together. https://devspace.sh/

My favourite tool in this category is Devspace. As you've requested it is capable of building and deploying multiple images.